Jean A. (readinggenie) reviewed Blame It on the Duke (Disgraceful Dukes, Bk 3) on + 55 more book reviews
"Blame It On The Duke" by Lenora Bell (May 2017)
Nicholas, Lord Hatherly, decided to live for the day because his father, the Duke of Barrington, had gone mad and so had all his ancestors. Nicholas was just waiting for the day when he himself would go mad. He vowed he would never marry but his father somehow got out of the house and gambled "him" away. Now he was honor bound to marry.
Miss Alice Tombs had plans to travel with her brother to India. She had saved a manuscript her grandfather was going to throw away. it was the missing piece to the Kama Sutra of Vatsydyana. She had been working on translating it when she found out her father had won the notorious Marquess in a game of cards and her parents expected her to marry him.
During her meeting with the Marquess, Alice talks Nicholas into marrying her. The agreement is that they will live together for a month in which time Nicholas would show her the ways of passion and then she would go on her way to India and be able to travel as a married woman. Nicholas would be free to do as he pleases and her father would pay his debts.
The story was going real well until about 2/3 ways through you have some detailed sex which I should have been prepared for since she had stipulated he teach her the ways of passion. The author does show how involved a woman can get when you put "marriage/love" into the mix.
My mother once told me how the doctor in her small town warned her away from a fellow because insanity ran in the family. The modern thought on this is still pretty much the same - that the predisposition toward insanity runs in families but predisposition is not the same as determinism. It's just one factor. The other factor which is more important is the environment.
The story is fun, happy and sad at the same time.
Happy Reading!
Nicholas, Lord Hatherly, decided to live for the day because his father, the Duke of Barrington, had gone mad and so had all his ancestors. Nicholas was just waiting for the day when he himself would go mad. He vowed he would never marry but his father somehow got out of the house and gambled "him" away. Now he was honor bound to marry.
Miss Alice Tombs had plans to travel with her brother to India. She had saved a manuscript her grandfather was going to throw away. it was the missing piece to the Kama Sutra of Vatsydyana. She had been working on translating it when she found out her father had won the notorious Marquess in a game of cards and her parents expected her to marry him.
During her meeting with the Marquess, Alice talks Nicholas into marrying her. The agreement is that they will live together for a month in which time Nicholas would show her the ways of passion and then she would go on her way to India and be able to travel as a married woman. Nicholas would be free to do as he pleases and her father would pay his debts.
The story was going real well until about 2/3 ways through you have some detailed sex which I should have been prepared for since she had stipulated he teach her the ways of passion. The author does show how involved a woman can get when you put "marriage/love" into the mix.
My mother once told me how the doctor in her small town warned her away from a fellow because insanity ran in the family. The modern thought on this is still pretty much the same - that the predisposition toward insanity runs in families but predisposition is not the same as determinism. It's just one factor. The other factor which is more important is the environment.
The story is fun, happy and sad at the same time.
Happy Reading!
